Senior Occupational Therapist / Senior Community MH Practitioner
Join to apply for the Senior Occupational Therapist / Senior Community MH Practitioner role at Transskribo.
To work closely with the Professional Lead Occupational Therapist for service, to provide leadership and oversight for Occupational Therapy provision within the locality specific community mental health service. To ensure a fair and equitable Occupational Therapy offer for individuals who access the service. To provide specialist, evidence-based Occupational Therapy assessments, interventions and recommendations, to meet the needs of identified individuals within the Community Mental Health Service.
To actively support duty and triage activities within the service locality functions, including acting as the lead duty clinician on a regular rotational basis and offering guidance and advice to junior staff. To support the locality leadership in the chairing and co-chairing of meetings, taking on champion/lead roles for clinical responsibilities. To support the locality leadership team in incident reporting, completing investigations, implementing action plans and debriefs. To act as a lead practitioner and key worker to ensure that all care delivery is of the highest quality.
To work within the skilled and diverse community mental health service, alongside primary care and voluntary sector colleagues, to ensure that individuals experiencing significant Occupational Deprivation and Occupational dysfunction have access to evidence-based, planned assessment and treatment.
To actively participate in MDT activities, and take a lead in identifying potential Occupational needs of clients within the wider team caseload. To be a positive advocate for the role of Occupational Therapy within Community mental health services. To provide expert guidance, recommendations and advice to colleagues within the Community Mental Health service.
To support the leadership team in the development of staff, meeting of quality standards, implementation of policy, management of change and innovation. To formulate and deliver treatment packages utilising a wide range of therapeutic approaches and interventions, to meet functional, occupational & environmental needs in negotiation with the Service User.
To take responsibility for student education, and supervision and development of preceptees within the service. Support recovery, social inclusion, maintenance or development of roles and responsibilities within the domains of self-care productivity or leisure; to promote and maximise the potential for independence.
To work collaboratively with colleagues across services, from inpatient to community and third sector provision, meeting the needs of individuals and ensuring smooth transitions from acute to community care. To maintain Professional Occupational Therapy and AHP links. Attend and contribute to governance meetings and formal clinical review as required.
To work as an integrated member of the clinical team, participating in all aspects of day-to-day service provision. Senior clinicians work with a defined caseload of service users and as part of a multi-disciplinary team, providing assessment, care planning and care delivery. This will include the provision of highly skilled Occupational therapy assessment, intervention and recommendations, psychological interventions, groupwork, clinical assessment, risk assessments / risk management, and promoting recovery and inclusion.
All practitioners are expected to consistently demonstrate the Six Cs namely care, compassion, competence, communication, courage and commitment, as well as the Trusts values. To take responsibility for identifying and reducing health inequalities experienced by service users and carers.
Seniority level
* Mid-Senior level
Employment type
* Full-time
Job function
* Health Care Provider
#J-18808-Ljbffr